Tag: Americas
International, politics, coronation, climate… These events expected in 2023
What to expect in 2023? Covid, for starters, will always be with us, as all eyes are currently on China where the number of contagious people has exploded since the…
record cocaine seizures for a country that has become a trafficking hub
Drug seizures, mainly cocaine, are constant and substantial in Ecuador. In 2021, 210 tons were seized, and in this year 2022, the total still rose to 196 tons. These figures…
2019 protests in Chile: controversial presidential pardons
In Chile, President Gabriel Boric pardoned 13 people yesterday Friday. Twelve of them) had been sentenced to prison terms for offenses committed during the social crisis where around thirty people…
Climate change: in Florida, the “most ambitious green project in the world”
The sea is rising and the sky is falling on their heads. Between rising waters and more frequent tropical rains – not to mention hurricanes – Floridians are sandwiched by…
Jair Bolsonaro leaves the country before handing over power to Lula
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro left Brazil for the United States on Friday, two days before the end of his mandate and the enthronement of his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da…
the tax returns of Donald Trump and his relatives made public
Donald Trump’s tax returns have just been made public in the United States. They represent thousands of pages and data relating to the taxes of the former president, his wife…
Black rights in Brazil: how Pelé ‘dribbled past’ racism
In Brazil, there has always been someone to remark: “Pelé is the best football player in history. But he is more concerned with his advertising contracts than with the rights…
Football legend King Pele dies aged 82
Football has lost a legend. Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, died on Thursday, December 29 at the age of 82, his family announced to AFP. The Brazilian…
the decision on the “interim presidency” of opponent Juan Guaidó postponed
The opposition to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has postponed to January 3, and no longer to Thursday, December 29, its decision concerning the end or not of the “ interim…
What is a “cyclonic bomb”, this weather phenomenon that will paralyze the United States?
It’s a storm like you only see “once in a generation” according to the National Weather Service (NWS), the American weather service. Since Thursday, freezing temperatures of up to -55…